Slash and Squirrels
I’m rethinking my promise to bring you some squirrel recipes this morning. It now strikes me as a little … squirrelly. No, that’s not the right word, more like … gross. Not because it’s squirrel, mind you, but because hearing in detail how any meat is prepared can be a little t.m.i. It’s like the sage advice never to watch sausage being made. But I made a promise, so here are a couple: (put down your breakfast)
When I was a teenager, I lived next door to a pharmacist that liked squirrel meals. He let me hunt on his property if I would bring him some squirrels that I shot while hunting. His cook Ola would parboil the squirrel to make it tender and then pick the meat off the bone and put it into a pie just like you would prepare a chicken pie. The pies were delicious. The pharmacist would also instruct Ola to save the heads that were parboiled and he would hold the squirrel head in one hand and then crack the top of the head with a spoon.
Regards, Bob Anderson, Homewood
Start with several young, fat Red Fox Squirrels. Clean them, which is an art in itself, unzipping their fur coats & removing them. Put the meat to soak in a big bowl of salt water in the refrigerator for a couple days, to draw the blood out. Change the water after one day. Rub salt, pepper and garlic powder into the meat. Roll in flour and brown in a skillet of hot oil. Then cover and cook for approx a half hour over medium low heat,until tender. Tastes similar to fried chicken, only better, because the meat has a nutty taste, since that is what squirrels eat! We love this time of year, since squirrel season starts the beginning of September and just being out in the woods, sitting quietly and enjoying nature is a healing experience in itself. Getting a squirrel is a bonus!
Jerry McCoy
Our hand-held cameraman, says you’ve got to be awfully hungry to enjoy squirrel. I sensed some first-hand experience here. Has Steve tried it? You bet he has, several times. His take: “After you gut ‘em, skin ‘em, and clean ‘em you get a piece of meat about the size of a hamster. You got to cook up about 12 of ‘em for a meal. And they’re stringy unless you stem ‘em for a long time.” So Steve, do they taste like chicken? “Nope, they taste like woodchuck.”
Rocker Slash (of Guns n Roses fame) was in the greenroom listening in on all this squirrel conversation. He’s done every drug in the book, but there’s one thing he’s never tried: squirrel. Apparently even he has his limits. I asked Slash if he had any family recipes, not involving squirrels, that he wanted to share. “My family didn’t have recipes,” he said.
No I didn’t fell asleep while talking to Slash. The camera caught me expressing skepticism at his rejection of squirrel.
I ate squirrell before smothered in mushroom gravy with Rice. It’s actually pretty good and similar to rabbit. Now Alisyn if you want some good batter recipe for Calf Fries, I’m your man. I will even overnight the Calf Fries to you. LOL
Ed
Um…dare I ask, what are Calf Fries?
WHY WOULD ANYONE ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH EAT SQUIRRELS WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH GREAT PIG TO EAT? COME ON DOWN TO NORTH CAROLINA ALISYN AND WE WILL TREAT YOU TO THE BEST BBQ IN THE WORLD, LEXINGTON STYLE BBQ!!! HICKORY SMOKED ON OUTSIDE PITS, YOU COULD JUST EAT THE SMOKE. DRINK DOWN A TALL CHEERWINE (MADE IN NEARBY SALISBURY, SEN. ELIZABETH DOLE’S HOMETOWN) AND YOU WILL THINK YOU WILL HAVE DIED AND GONE TO HOG HEAVEN.
I’ve just booked my flight!
Here is a of good squirrel recipe.
Squirrel Stroganoff with mushrooms, onions and sour cream.
6-7 slices of bacon, diced
2 squirrels quartered
3/4 cup flour
2 1/2 tsp dry mustard
1 1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tps pepper
1 1/2 sp salt
3/4 cup chicken brooth
1 large onion, diced
1/4 lb mushrooms, sliced
3 tsp butter
2 cups sour cream
1/4 cup sherry
minced parsley
Fry bacon until chitlins are crisp, remove and set aside. Roll squirrel in flour mixed with mustard, thyme, salt and pepper - use all of the flour mix, and brown pieces over medium heat. about 15 min. Add chicken broth, cover, and simmer until tender about 15 min.
While squirrel is simmering. Saute onion and then mushrooms in butter and set aside.
When done remove squirrel pieces temporarly and stir in the sour cream, onions and mushrooms. Make sure the sour cream melds with the other ingredents, and if necessary add a bit of hot water. Simmer for 5 min. -DO NOT BOIL!
Now stir in the sherry add the chitlins and the squirrel pieces, and simmer until squirrel is heated again. Garnish with minced parsley. Serve with mashed potatoes and root veg of your choice.
I must say, this does look delicious! But are two squirrels really enough? Steve Gender says you need about 6 or 7 to fill you up.
You did not mention Slash? Any comments on him?
I think the interview was quite good.
As far as squirrel goes never!!
Guns and roses’, “Sweet Child O’ Mine” never fails to speed up my jogging pace.
Fantastic song!…One of the great guitar solos and rock vocals of all time!
Keep it going, Slash!
Hi Alisyn. Today you are filling in for Jane Skinner, and I am so pleased to see you on television again except briefly in the morning with Steve and Brian. My husband and I watch Fox first thing in the morning and last thing at night (and in between). Since you had your last baby, we don’t get to see much of you anymore. You are a beautiful lady, have a great voice and are a pleasure to watch. Do you have any plans on being on TV more than you are now?
Also, just wondering. Michelle Malkin used to be on Bill O’Reilly a lot, but she isn’t on anymore. What is she doing, and when can we catch her?
Thanks for coming back to Fox.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I have eaten snails, but I would never eat them again.
Steve is right they do taste like woodchuck.
I don’t know if you guys realized it or not but the other day you displayed the ten commandments incorrectly. You listed the 9th and 10th commandments as both dealing with covetousness and left out the 2nd. You ought to check it.
Also, I eat squirrel, religiously. I hunt them, clean them and fix them for the men in my church. They’re delicious and have always been a source of wild game for us country folks.
Pressure cook for a few minutes
salt and pepper
dip in egg and flour
Fry until golden brown.
Great with biscuits and gravy! Yeehaw
THE ONE AND ONLY WAY TO ENJOY SQUIRREL IS WITH PRIME RIB!!!
YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING
ONE 12 TO 14 POUND PRIME RIB
SALT AND PEPPER
ONE UNLEADED SQUIRREL
2 ACORNS
PREHEAT OVEN TO 450 DEGREES
SEASON PRIME RIB TO TASTE
PLACE IN CENTER RACK OF OVEN AND COOK FOR ONE HOUR ON 400. REDUCE HEAT TO 350 AND COOK TO AN INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF 130 DEGREES. REMOVE PRIME RIB AND LET STANE
MEANWHILE PICK UP THE ACORNS AND GIVE THEM TO THE SQUIRREL AND POLITELY TELL HIM THAT IT IS SUPPER TIME AND TO GO CLIMB A TREE…….ENJOY!!
Squirrel is actually very good if you can season-out the gamey taste. If it’s stringy and tough you’ve overcooked it!
Love your work, Slash! Your skills are proof there is a God. -Rod-
Leave my squirrels alone!!!!!! I buy food for them and enjoy watching them play. I even had babies early this year. Have 3 now, dog killed one, almost killed another and I intervened in time.
You did a great job as fill in today. Your voice seemed more relaxed instead of the deeper tone you seem to force when on Fox and Friends, and the way you read the prompter was great, nice and smooth with out the jerky short lines. I simply think you did fantastic, I stayed for the whole show.
You are one amazing, funny, informed woman. I look forward to seeing, listening to you each morning.
I would think you should have the full-time anchor job on Fox & Friends.
You really do have it “going on”!
Please feel free to copy and take this email to your bosses for a full review and promotion! (including an increase in pay)
You “rock”.
Danette
Squirrel is okay, but for really good BBQ, head to western Kentucky for some fantastic MUTTON!
Yes, it is sheep, but I haven’t seen too many people turn down leg of lamb, or lamb chops!
Squirrel - gotta fry it , good with biscuits (like Grandma used to make), eggs, and red eye gravy
Guns n Roses - gotta listen to em loud…
and Alisyn - you just gotta love her smile
Hi,
As a girl, my mother cooked squirrel my brothers hunted in SE Minnesota. We wathced the squirrels get skinned and cleaned in the back yard and sometimes saved the prettiest tails. I feel grossed out now as an adult when I think about eating squirrel. My mother baked it with alot of salt and pepper. Sometimes we would come accross a beebee still stuck in the meat. I think I would prefer the pie recipe without the bone your listener described better so I would not recognize what I was eating. If I knew a dish was made from squirrel, I doubt I would take a bite.
When I first joined the Navy, I was assigned to a jet trainer command. When I was learning how to launch and recover jets, I was told to put a song into my head to coordinate the hand signals. I chose GNR’s “Welcome to the Jungle”. After almost 20 years, I still can’t launch a jet without that song running through my mind.
Um…dare I ask, what are Calf Fries?
Bull testicles, you need to keep an open mind, they are delicious!
From christmas Vacation -
Clark - (as the squirrel is running through the house)
Eddie, don’t you eat those @$^& things?
Eddie’s wife - No Eddie doesn’t eat them anymore, his doctor told him they are high in colestrol…
…or something to that effect
Squirrel is really quite good when cooked in dumplings like chicken and dumplings. You have to boil them a little bit first w/salt and pepper to make them not be tough. And, no, they don’t taste like chicken. Some people I know fry them. They’ll even fry the whole head and then crack open the skull and eat the brains. I personally don’t care to eat them this way–they look a little too much like their cousin, the rat. Also, it takes so many squirrel to make a meal. You have to figure at least a half dozen for each person, because the only meat worth eating is in the hind legs. I really prefer swamp rabbit.
I wonder if tree squirrels are as tasty as ground squirrels?
I wonder if the tree squirrels are as tasty as the red ground squirrels?
When my wife was a little girl in rural Texas she and her mother went walking in the woods and her mom asked her to point out any squirrels she saw. When she did Mom shot it with a 22 rifle (to my wifes horror, “I didn’t know you were going to kill it Mom!”) and they took it home to eat. When I heard this story for the first time I instantly knew the moral. Stay on the good side of a mother-in-law who can shoot a squirrel out of a tree.